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President Trump appeared Sunday on 60 minutes in a wide-ranging interview with Lesley Stahl. Stahl tried to stump the President on various topics around North Korea. Stahl asked if Trump would be lowering sanctions on North Korea.

The press has their panties in a wad about Trump saying he has a good relationship with Kim Jong Un and saying at one time he loves Kim. Because of the good results from North Korea including returning hostages, remains and not firing any missiles Stahl asked about lowering sanctions.

President Donald Trump: Let’s say the answer is yes, okay? In the meantime, they haven’t tested a missile. They haven’t tested a rocket. They definitely haven’t done a nuclear test because you know about them real fast. It sort of moves the earth. And we have a relationship now.

Lesley Stahl: One of the things that Kim has asked for is for you to ease the sanctions.

President Donald Trump: We haven’t done that.

Lesley Stahl: Are you prepared to do that? What– what does he have to do–

President Donald Trump: No, No. I–

Lesley Stahl: Before you’re–

President Donald Trump: No I’m not doing it. This isn’t the Obama administration. I haven’t eased the sanctions. I haven’t done anything. I haven’t done anything. We’re meeting. I believe he likes me. I like him. We have a good relationship. It’s very important.

President Trump was referring to Obama and his Secretary of States John Kerry and Crooked Hillary. Their propensity to of lowering sanctions and giving before getting something in foreign relations. The President may also have been referring to the Obama administration sending Iran billions of dollars in cash for hostage release and other negotiations.

It is clear the Trump administration is not the Obama administration. Obama hated the United States and had a love for Muslim countries perhaps like no other American President. President Trump pointed it out once again.

Most liberal Democrats on a TV show that probably no one but liberals watch would rather see Trump fail to reach peach with North Korea than receive credit for it.

A live TV poll taken on Michelle Wolf’s Netflix show found that 71% of the comedian’s liberal audience would rather peace with North Korea fail than see Donald Trump take credit for it.

The audience was asked, “Are you sort of hoping we don’t get peace with North Korea so you wouldn’t have to give Trump credit?”

Only 29% said they wanted peace with North Korea given the option

These Liberal Democrats are just echoing the statements they hear from their leaders including the House and Senate minority leaders and Representative Adam Schiff. Pelosi complained that Trump had insulted American allies and sidelined the experts at the State Department.

Schumer said by meeting with Kim, Trump has given “a brutal and repressive dictatorship the international legitimacy it has long craved.”

“It is best not to dive in head first and hope for the best but rather to work slowly, transparently and verifiably to build trust and lock in concessions,” Schumer warned.

“Nuclear nonproliferation is a pillar of America’s national security. We respect any serious and real diplomatic efforts to achieve that goal on the Korean peninsula. Apparently, the President handed Kim Jong-un concessions in exchange for vague promises that do not approach a clear and comprehensive pathway to denuclearization and non-proliferation.

“In his haste to reach an agreement, President Trump elevated North Korea to the level of the United States while preserving the regime’s status quo. The millions of families currently living in fear of nuclear weapons in the region deserve strong and smart leadership built on diplomacy and engagement with our regional partners and allies.

“The President’s marginalization of the vast expertise of the State Department and his habitual disparaging of our allies as demonstrated at the G7 Forum hinders a lasting, stable pathway to peace.”

One trip and it's "mission accomplished," Mr. President? North Korea still has all its nuclear missiles, and we only got a vague promise of future denuclearization from a regime that can't be trusted.

This is why you have to embrace the fact that Liberalism is a mental disorder. The Korean war ended in 1953. Until President Trump stood up to Kim Jong midget and brought him to the negotiating table North Korea has remained a threat to the world. This recluse Communist Country is 35 miles from Seoul South Korea a beautiful city with 28 million people living there. And liberal democrats would rather see war than Trump receive credit for peace. That is a mental disorder.

President Trump said today there have been no rockets fired and no nuclear test in 9 months where is the press on the North Korea success. The news last week was stuck on a freeze frame because Trump did not blast Putin for interfering with the US elections. The press was having a collective aneurysm over Trump’s perceived weakness when dealing with Vladimir Putin. Yet it is President Trump’s tough talk with the little rocket man that has led to no rockets being fired.

Trump tweeted about North Korea “A Rocket has not been launched by North Korea in 9 months. Likewise, no Nuclear Test. Japan is happy, all of Asia is happy. But the Fake News is saying without ever asking me (always anonymous sources), that I am angry because it is not going fast enough. Wrong, very happy!”

A Rocket has not been launched by North Korea in 9 months. Likewise, no Nuclear Tests. Japan is happy, all of Asia is happy. But the Fake News is saying, without ever asking me (always anonymous sources), that I am angry because it is not going fast enough. Wrong, very happy!

The press is proving President Trump to be right that they are fake news. They continue to shove the Russian collusion narrative down our throats. Even though this weekend once again it was proven that the Russian dossier bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC was over 90% of the reason a FISA warrant was issued to spy on the Trump campaign.

There have been no rockets fired and no new nuclear test in North Korea in 9 months. The denuclearization of North Korea will take some time. President Trump has been clear of that. But tough talk and tough negotiations have taken a rogue regime that threatened their neighbors sometimes on a weekly basis to a road to stabilization in North Korea. The press will not report it because they will not speak of the Presidents successes.

“While very light on substance, the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un in Singapore represents a positive step in de-escalating tensions between our countries, addressing the threat of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and moving toward a more peaceful future,” Sanders said in the statement. “Congress has an important role to play in making sure this a meaning full and serious process and not just a series of photo ops.”

Sanders comments came after Trump announced an end to joint military exercises or ‘war games’ with South Korea in exchange for Kim’s pledge to begin working toward denuclearization during a press conference following the summit in Singapore.

“We will be stopping the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount of money, unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along like it should,” Trump told reporters. “But we’ll be saving a tremendous amount of money, plus I think it’s very provocative.”

Sanders statement on Tuesday was a stark reversal to his statement on August 9, 2017 condemning President Trump’s tough talk with Kim Jong Midget.

“President Trump’s bombastic rhetoric is not appropriate when we are dealing with the possibility of a nuclear war that could kill millions of people. North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missile capability is an enormously serious issue and we need serious people at the State Department dealing with it. Our job now is to work with China and our allies in the region and around the world on a comprehensive diplomatic strategy to address this problem.”

It appears the Presidents “bombastic rhetoric” is in fact what has led us to this positive step and may or may not lead to lasting peace. At least for now President Trump has done what none of his 5 predecessors have done and started a meaningful dialogue with the Communist North Korea dictator.

North Korea has began dismantling key nuclear site. According to satellite images the launch station in Sohae is being dismantled. The site has been the key satellite launch site since 2012.

The US press will probably not be focusing on this today because they have other very important fake news to report. The meltdown will probably continue over President Trump’s all caps threats to North Korea. But isn’t this the same narrative they had when Trump was calling Kim Jong midget the little rocket man. Or telling the North Korean Dictator that our bombs are bigger and more accurate than his?

The same thing is going on in Iran right now. The Iranian President Rouhani made a threat to the United State. Rouhani did what the Iranians do. He made a threat to America some sort of death to America threat. And there is a new sheriff in town and trump does not appear to suffer fools. Trump fired back to Rouhani to never ever threaten America or they would suffer consequences like they have never seen.

The left has Trump derangement syndrome because a recent poll said that 71% of Democrats would rather see Trump’s policy fail in North Korea than have the president receive credit. Despite their desires for failure it appears that Kim Jong un is keeping his word.

“Since these facilities are believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North’s intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence-building measure on the part of North Korea,” according to 38 North’s Joseph Bermudez Jr.

“Most notably, these include the rail-mounted processing building — where space launch vehicles are assembled before moving them to the launchpad — and the nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles.”

Nancy Pelosi chimed in again on President Trump’s recent summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This time saying at the end of a news conference that “it pays to have a nuclear bomb when negotiating with Trump.”

Pelosi began her remarks by saying “The denuclearization of the [Korean] peninsula has been one of the priorities that was spelled out by all of us, but including the secretary of state in advance of the meetings,” said Pelosi.

“The denuclearization of that [peninsula] has certainly not happened nor is there any prospect that it will,” she said.

Pelosi also claimed that Communist North Korea has been selling missiles to other countries. Pelosi visited North Korea several years ago to discuss public policy with officials there.

When asked about selling missiles, according to Pelosi, the North Koreans said, “we don’t sell them for any reason but for money, you want to buy them, we’ll sell them to you.”

Pelosi added that “stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction is a pillar of our national security.”

Pelosi also criticized the significance of the end of joint military exercises by the United States and South Korea, saying, “You don’t just say we’re no longer going to do exercises with the South because we no longer see a threat in the North.”

Nancy Pelosi thinks you need a nuclear bomb to negotiate with President Trump. I am not sure she would even win if she had a nuclear bomb. This woman is totally devoid of any form of intelligence and once again she babbles through the interview. America had better make sure she doesn’t become Speaker of the House and third in line for the Presidency again.

Senator Lindsey Graham has some words for critics who do not like that he has found some common ground with President Trump.

“If you don’t like me working with President Trump to make the world a better place, I don’t give a shit,” Graham said Friday morning during an interview with CNN.

The South Carolina Republican is known in the Senate for his advocacy of a strong national defense, his support of the military, and as an advocate of strong United States leadership in world affairs. He is also known for his willingness to be bipartisan and work with Democrats where he can find common ground. Graham mentioned in the interview that he worked with President Obama on some issues where they could agree.

Graham talked up President Trump’s negotiating skills after earlier in the week saying “there are only two options in North Korea peace or war.”

“I’ll tell him when I think he’s wrong, but let me just tell you about the critics. When I worked with President Obama, and I did on occasion, I was a hero. And now I work with President Trump and I’m two-faced.”

Graham has regularly slammed President Trump for being cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has warned that if Trump fired special counsel Robert Mueller, it would be “the beginning of the end of his presidency.

Maybe Senator Lindsey Graham has finally gotten the memo that never Trumper’s are not benefiting from going against the President. They have butted heads but are said to be regular golf buddies and Graham probably doesn’t give a s–t what you think about that either.

Nancy Pelosi trashes Trump over the agreement made in Singapore with Kim Jong Un. The same Nancy Pelosi who said in 2015 when asked if Iran could do bad things with the 150 BILLION dollars the US gave them “well they may.” This is the idiot that would be Secretary of State if the Democrats were to regain power.

Pelosi complained that Trump had insulted American allies and sidelined the experts at the State Department. This woman is a complete and utter moron. We should all wake up every morning and thank God she is not running the country.

Pelosi full statement on North Korea agreement as reported by NBC News

Nuclear nonproliferation is a pillar of America’s national security. We respect any serious and real diplomatic efforts to achieve that goal on the Korean peninsula. Apparently, the President just handed Kim Jong-un concessions in exchange for vague promises that do not approach a clear and comprehensive pathway to denuclearization and non-proliferation.

In his haste to reach an agreement, President Trump elevated North Korea to the level of the United States while preserving the regime’s status quo. The millions of families currently living in fear of nuclear weapons in the region deserve strong and smart leadership built-in diplomacy and engagement with our regional partners and allies.

The president’s marginalization of the State Department and his habitual disparaging of our allies as demonstrated at the G7 Forum hinders a lasting, stable pathway to peace.

Pelosi did not stipulate the concessions that Trump had made probably because she did not know them. Other Democrats have chimed in on the North Korea negotiations with crooked Adam Schiff saying “I think the North Koreans and Chinese got everything they could have hoped for this evening. All we got was a vague promise.”

.@RepAdamSchiff on the results of the #SingaporeSummit – I think the North Koreans and the Chinese got everything they could have hoped for on this meeting. All we got was a vague promise. #AMR

Senate minority Leader Chuckie Schumer ismissed President Trump’s sitdown with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as nothing more than “a reality show summit.” The Democrats are completely unhinged in their hatred of President Trump. As Nancy Pelosi trashes trump she and Chuck Schumer have no clue how to solve national security issues. The Iran deal proves that fact.

Dennis Rodman arrived in Singapore prior to the summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un to “support his friends.” The former NBA player with the Detroit Pistons is one of the few individuals who is friends with both leaders.

Rodman told a story about promising Kim Jong Un to bring a basketball team for his birthday. After making the promise he did not even know if he could do it but he had promised. He ended up being able to put it together. Kim pulled him aside and said it was the first time someone had kept a promise to him and his country.

The CNN reporter asked Dennis Rodman if either side had reached out to him prior to the summit. He said ” he spoke to Kim Jong Un 5 years ago over lunch and Kim said he wanted Rodman to tell the American President three things he wanted and we could talk. One of the things was move troops back from South Korea and other things and Kim said he would listen.

Rodman says “he tried to do that with Obama and Obama didn’t even give him the time of day.” “He just brushed me off but that didn’t deter me. I still kept going back and going back and I showed my loyalty to that country.”

Rodman went on to say “I said to everyone the door will open and when I said those things I came home and I got so many death threats.” Rodman went on to say this is a great day for America, this is a great day for Singapore and a great day for the world.”

Republican Senator and member of the Senate Armed Service services committee said there are really only two options with the talks between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, “peace or war.”

The South Carolina Senator told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” Sunday that there are ultimately three possible outcomes to President Trump’s negotiations with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “Peace, where we have a win-win solution; military force where they — we devastate the North Korean regime and stop their program by force; or to capitulate like we’ve done in the past.”

Graham continued, “Donald Trump is not going to capitulate, so there’s really only two options — peace or war.”

Senator Graham said he supports a call from Democrat senators for the U.S. not to lift sanctions against North Korea without verifiable dismantling of its nuclear and missile arsenal. The Democratic senators set out their recommendations in a letter to Trump last week.

But Graham also called on the Democrats to support Trump in his talks with North Korea by supporting an authorization to use military force against the country if necessary.

“I appreciate you telling the president what a good deal would look like, but the country needs you to back the president up to get that deal,” Graham said on “This Week,” addressing the Democratic senators.

“So here’s the question for my Democratic colleagues,” he added. “If diplomacy fails, will you support my efforts to authorize the use of military force as a last resort to convince North Korea and China things are going to be different this time?”

“A bipartisan [military-force authorization] would really make that letter [from Democrats] much more credible,” Graham said. “And if diplomacy fails, as a last resort, Democrats and Republicans need to put the military option on the table or we’ll never get a good deal.”

While Graham said the U.S. needs to be prepared to take military action against North Korea if necessary, he doesn’t expect that to happen soon.

We will know soon if “peace or war” are in fact the only options of the North Korea talks. President Trump and Kim Jong Un will sit down with their interpreters in 10 hours.

Newt Gingrich praises Trump’s handling of North Korea, saying it reminds him of Ronald Reagan. appearing on Fox and Friends Thursday.

“Trump has ratcheted up the pressure — he’s made it very real,” Gingrich said. “I actually thought that Secretary Pompeo’s speech about the Iranians was also aimed at the North Koreans. It was a very tough speech and said basically, we’re going to take apart your economy. I think it’s sort of a reminder to the North Koreans. You don’t want to play nice? Fine. We’re a lot bigger than you. We won’t play nice either.”

The President announced Thursday morning that the US was backing out of the planned talks with North Korea.

“I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump wrote. “Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place.”

Trump also reminded Kim Jong Midget that the US has a very powerful military that is ready to act should they do anything foolish.

Gingrich invoked Reagan’s formula of “trust but verify” and said as long as Trump stays the course with his current foreign policy team, America will keep North Korea in check.

“Reagan used to say a Russian phrase — trust but verify,” Gingrich said.

President Trump gave an impromptu news conference on Fox and Friends discussing everything from the IG report to Hillary’s celebration turned funeral (I love that one) to his recent Summit in Singapore with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Specifically asked about North Korea deal and Otto Warmbier’s treatment.

Trump was asked by a reporter “You spoke passionately about Otto Warmbier’s death. In the same breath your defending Kim Jong Un’s human rights record. How can you do that?

President Trump; You know why? Because I don’t want a nuclear weapon to destroy you and your family.

Other excerpts from the impromptu news conference.

“We’ve heard a lot of bad things about Rocket Man,” FOX host Steve Doocy said. “But now all of a sudden you seem to be best friends, what’s going on?”

“We had very good chemistry,” the president said about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, adding that saying so probably isn’t “politically correct.”

“We really did hit it off,” the president repeated. “You know, good chemistry.”

“I take heat [for that], but what am I supposed to do? Walk out and say he’s terrible? We got along very well. I asked him about the remains, I’d like to get them, He said yes.”

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1007619434750595074

They are already starting to produce the remains of these great young soldiers who were left in North Korea. We’re getting the remains, nobody thought that was possible!”

Trump said the agreement they signed is a promise from Kim to denuclearize. “It says he will denuclearize.”

He said sanctions would come off of North Korea “when we can be sure there is no more nuclear.”

“We’re very close t getting it started, he wants to do it. He wants to make his country Great,” Trump said.

“Once we know that it can’t happen, and I’m telling you right now, with the relationship I have now, it is not going to happen,” the president said about nuclear war. “It won’t happen, don’t worry about it!”

“When I was talking to President Obama, he essentially was ready to go to war with North Korea,” Trump also said. “He felt you had almost to go to war, and I did ask [Obama]: Have you spoken to [Kim]? Do you think it would be a good idea to speak with him maybe?”

“If you go to war there, you’re not talking about 100,000 lives, which is a lot, you’re talking ab out 30-40-50 million lives. Seoul is 30 miles from the border, they don’t even need nuclear weapons to take out Seoul.”

“I get hit by these fakes back here because I went there, I gave him credibility. I think it is great to give him credibility. Here’s what we get: Everything. Point after point after point.”

Dennis Rodman will be in Singapore prior to the summit between Kim Jong un and President Trump. Rodman says he will be there to support his friends. He and Kim Jong un have struck a strange friendship. Rodman has said that Kim is like a little kid.

Rodman’s agent, Darren Prince, confirmed the trip.

“He is willing to offer his support for his friends, President Trump and Marshall Kim Jong Un,” Prince said.

The NBA Hall-of-Famer also posted the announcement on Instagram Friday morning.

“Thanks to my loyal sponsors from @potcoin and my team at @princemarketinggroup , I will be flying to Singapore for the historical Summit. I’ll give whatever support is needed to my friends, President Trump and Marshall Kim Jong Un,” he wrote.

In a statement, Rodman praised Trump.

“To all Americans and the rest of the world I’m honored to call President Trump a friend. He’s one of the best negotiators of all time and I’m looking forward to him adding to his historic success at the Singapore Summit,” Rodman said.

The announcement from Rodman comes just a day after Trump said that Rodman was not invited to the summit.

“I like him. He’s a nice guy. No, he was not invited,” Trump told reporters on Thursday during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

I’ll do whatever it takes to make the world better place. This is what President Trump said at the news conference 1.09 minutes into this taping. “If that means sitting on a stage with Kim Jong un” I will do whatever it takes. The 71-year-old President also mentioned that he had been up 25 straight hours. He is committed to achieving peace on the Korean peninsula.

The President was answering a question by Time magazine asking if he now sees himself as an equal to Kim Jong Un. The criticism of the left is that President Trump meeting with Kim Jong Un gives him the legitimacy he desperately desires. Traveling by plane to a neutral location away from North Korea could be used as propaganda to show the North Korean people Kim is a competent leader.

President Trump went on to say if it takes traveling to Singapore and sitting on a stage with Chairman Kim to save 30 million lives maybe more he is willing to do that. It remains to be seen if the North Korean leader can be trusted and truly wants to make changes in his country. But History was made in Singapore last night and Trump is to be commended for bringing the two countries together to talk.

President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un shook hands to start a possibly historical summit. Trump declaring the two would have a “great discussion” and Kim saying they had overcome “obstacles” to get to this point.

Before a row of alternating U.S. and North Korean flags, the leaders shook hands warmly at a Singapore island resort, creating an indelible image of two unorthodox leaders as they opened a conversation that could determine historic peace or raise the specter of a growing nuclear threat.

President Trump taunted the American left prior to the summit tweeting ” The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S. say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missile launches have stopped and these pundits who have called me wrong from the beginning have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!”

The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches have stoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!

It remains to be seen if this is a truly historical summit. But President Trump is in a position that no American President has been for many years. And Kim Jong Un has a chance to change the history of his poor Communist country. Pray for peace.

Jimmy Carter says that President Trump could win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts with North Korea. Carter the 93-year-old ex-President doesn’t agree with Trump on much but says if Trump pulls of the peace deal it will be an achievement none of his predecessors have been able to achieve.

“If President Trump is successful in getting a peace treaty that’s acceptable to both sides with North Korea, I think he certainly ought to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize,” the 93-year-old ex-president told The Politico in an interview published Tuesday. “I think it would be a worthy and a momentous accomplishment that no previous president has been able to realize.”

Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his ​work to promote humanitarian issues and free elections around the globe, criticized Trump for dealing a “blow to peace” in the Middle by moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.

When that quality i​s​ lacking in the commander-in-chief, Carter said​, “it makes us much more likely to treat people differently, and to discriminate against either African-Americans or others who are different. … I think it’s probably more difficult to elevate human rights to a top priority, and things like peace and justice.”

President Trump met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in today to discuss details of the proposed June 12 summit. North Korea canceled a summit with South Korea last week because they were upset over joint South Korea US military drills. Trump cast some doubt on the summit occurring as planned.

“There’s a very substantial chance that it won’t work out,” Trump said in the Oval Office, where he was sitting for critical talks with his South Korean counterpart. “That doesn’t mean that it won’t work out over a period of time, but it may not work out for June 12.”

President Trump left today for the G7 summit where he will try to renegotiate some terrible trade deals from his predecessors. Then he is off to Singapore for a historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong un. Last week leading up to the meeting Kim Yong Chol, became the highest-ranking North Korean representative to visit the White House in 18 years.

President Trump indicated if the meeting goes well with Kim in Singapore he may invite him to the White House for further talks.

“We would certainly like to see normalization, yes,” Trump said after two hours of White House meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

That would come after what Trump described as a diplomatic process that could include an agreement to safeguard Kim from the threat of ouster at the hands of the United States.

“I don’t think it will be one meeting,” Trump said.

Trump spent the past year preparing for this historical moment. He taunted Kim in a way no President ever has labeling him “little Rocket Man.” When North Korea spoke badly of Vice President Pence Trump canceled the meeting between the two leaders.

In his letter to Kim, the president warned of the US military’s “massive” nuclear capabilities.

“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used,” Trump wrote.

President Trump has negotiated with Kim Jong Un and other world leaders from a position of strength unlike Barack Hussein Obama and John Kerry. The little Rocket Man respects Trump. It remains to be seen if he will be invited to the White House but if he is it will be historic.

Dennis Rodman says Kim Jong Midget and President Trump are basicly the same. The ex-Chicago Bulls power forward – who has swigged vodka with Kim and been fired by Trump on Celebrity Apprentice – believes the two unpredictable leaders “are pretty much the same people”.

“They love control,” Rodman said in Beijing, adding that warnings of nuclear peril are harmless “entertainment”. “Ain’t nobody got no finger on the button.”

As tensions grow between Pyongyang and Washington, Rodman, 56, has styled himself as an international peacemaker ready to help strike a deal. He arrived in China on Monday following stops in Tokyo and US territory Guam.

He hoped to arrange a trip to Pyongyang, which he has visited five times, but was stymied by a US ban against American citizens travelling to the country.

“We thought we would give it a shot while we’re here,” Rodman said, adding that he is working on obtaining a “special pass” from Trump to visit North Korea early next year.

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While there, he plans to make a documentary and write a book about his relationship with Kim.

Rodman believes he can “alleviate some pressures as far as communication” between the US and North Korea.

On one of his North Korea trips in 2013 and 2014, “[Kim] gave me three things … to say to the president,” he said. “They asked us: can you go back to America to ask them to do this for us?”

For years, Rodman kept these three “pretty reasonable” requests secret because Kim told him being a middleman might put him in danger. But that was before Trump became president.

“This whole thing with me, [Kim] and Donald Trump – it’s a whole different dynamic right now,” said Rodman. “I said to [Trump] I got three things to say to you, and after that, he told me to f*** off.”

Now, Rodman plans to organise a basketball game between players from North Korea and Guam, a Pacific island which the North has threatened to hit with missiles. The match would be held in the “neutral site” of Beijing, Rodman said.

While he has yet to clear the idea with authorities, he hopes that such a game would “give something historical for everyone to see” – to show that “there’s no hatred at all” on either side.

Rodman – who calls Kim the “marshal” and says the dictator dubbed him a “friend for life” – has played drinking games, sung karaoke and ridden horses with the 33-year-old strongman.

He characterised the leader as a “21st-century guy” who has had to bear the fallout of the decisions made by “tyrants” like his father and grandfather, North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il-sung.

“[Kim Jong-Un] is in a position where he probably wants to do a lot of things that are really positive,” Rodman said. “I think that the structure of the system just don’t let him do it. I’ve seen that. You see him be happy, and then, all of a sudden you see him pull back. He wants to pull that trigger where he wants to let his people be more free.”

This is funny Kim Jong Midget wants to do a lot of really positive things. I am sure this could be said of Hitler, Castro, Stalin, Mussolini many tyrannical dictators. Pharaoh in the Bible also wanted to do great things but in the end only God could persuade him to do the right thing. Dictators as well as Socialist and Liberals are the same.

President Trump and Kim Jong Midget are not the same. Kim enjoys the power and gets off on it and uses it to strike fear in others and for intimidation. Trump has used his power to build wealth and lead a Nation out of tyrannical leftist mess Obama created.

North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol is in route to Washington to hand deliver letter from the North Korean leader to President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after reporting “good progress” in talks between the two sides to revive an on-again, off-again nuclear summit.

“I am confident we are moving in the right direction,” Pompeo told reporters at a news conference in New York after meeting Thursday with former North Korean military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol. “Our two countries face a pivotal moment in our relationship, and it would be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste.”

The proposed summit offers a historic opening for @POTUS and Chairman Kim to boldly lead U.S. and #DPRK into a new era of peace, prosperity, and security. Our countries face a pivotal moment in which it could be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste. pic.twitter.com/DDkTqnlI2n

Pompeo spoke after meeting with Kim Yong Chol for a little more than two hours at the residence of the deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The talks had been expected to be held in two sessions, one in the morning and one in the early afternoon, and had not been expected to conclude until 1:30 p.m. Instead, the two men wrapped up at 11:25 a.m.

Pompeo said they finished everything they needed to address in the morning session. Immediately afterward, he tweeted that he had had substantive talks on the priorities for the potential summit. Pompeo was accompanied by Andrew Kim, the head of a CIA unit assigned to work on North Korea, and Mark Lambert, the head of the State Department’s Korea desk.

“Our secretary of state is having very good meetings,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing on a trip to Texas. He said of the North Koreans, “I believe they will be coming down to Washington on Friday. A letter being delivered to me from Kim Jong Un. It is very important to them.”

“It is all a process,” he said of arranging the summit. “Hopefully we will have a meeting on the 12th.”

For now the Vice Chairman will deliver letter to Trump from Kim Jong Un. The first time North Korean official has visited White House The Vice Chairman’s visit marks the highest ranking North Korean official to the White House in 18 years.

President Trump just announced after an hour long meeting with North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong Choi that the June 12th summit is back on. “Now we’re going to deal,” Trump told reporters moments after the meeting ended. He also said it was likely that more than one meeting would be necessary. He concluded, “I think you’re going to have a very positive result in the end. We will see what we will see.”

Trump told reporters he hadn’t read the letter yet and added with a smile, “I may be in for a big surprise, folks.”

North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol is in route to Washington to hand deliver letter from the North Korean leader to President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after reporting “good progress” in talks between the two sides to revive an on-again, off-again nuclear summit.

“I am confident we are moving in the right direction,” Pompeo told reporters at a news conference in New York after meeting Thursday with former North Korean military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol. “Our two countries face a pivotal moment in our relationship, and it would be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste.”

The proposed summit offers a historic opening for @POTUS and Chairman Kim to boldly lead U.S. and #DPRK into a new era of peace, prosperity, and security. Our countries face a pivotal moment in which it could be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste. pic.twitter.com/DDkTqnlI2n

Pompeo spoke after meeting with Kim Yong Chol for a little more than two hours at the residence of the deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The talks had been expected to be held in two sessions, one in the morning and one in the early afternoon, and had not been expected to conclude until 1:30 p.m. Instead, the two men wrapped up at 11:25 a.m.

Pompeo said they finished everything they needed to address in the morning session. Immediately afterward, he tweeted that he had had substantive talks on the priorities for the potential summit. Pompeo was accompanied by Andrew Kim, the head of a CIA unit assigned to work on North Korea, and Mark Lambert, the head of the State Department’s Korea desk.

“Our secretary of state is having very good meetings,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing on a trip to Texas. He said of the North Koreans, “I believe they will be coming down to Washington on Friday. A letter being delivered to me from Kim Jong Un. It is very important to them.”

“It is all a process,” he said of arranging the summit. “Hopefully we will have a meeting on the 12th.”

For now the Vice Chairman will deliver letter to Trump from Kim Jong Un. The first time North Korean official has visited White House The Vice Chairman’s visit marks the highest ranking North Korean official to the White House in 18 years.